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Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Scales

I woke up to find the snake wrapping around my body.

Obviously my initial thought was to call out.

The tightening of the scales around me made me realise how stupid
that waste of oxygen was, so I quickly began to focus on working out how to get
out of this.

I saw my dinner knife a few feet away, and managed to roll
us both over, and force it into the back of-

My secret lover, Asandra, the thief, looking shocked.

I mean, fine, the Illusionist was in love with her too and
was jealous, but that’s no excuse…